Sentences with phrase «skeletal figures»

The artist rapidly became famous for his depictions of skeletal figures, mask - like faces and wordlists.
His large format multi-panel works feature skeletal figures with nuts and bolts which unforgivingly reveal the grotesque and dispassionate aspects of human being.
In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask - like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality.
Skeletal figures attempt to suck the life out of the boy while he - who - cannot - be-named fills the boy's mind with bloody images of injured and tortured friends.
Miguel is visible to the dead, though, the lively skeletal figures who seize Dia de Muertos as the one day they can travel to the mortal realm and see the loved ones they left behind.
Amongst the 40 haunting monochrome prints on display, all borrowed from the British Museum, is Tod und Frau (1910), meaning «death and woman», in which a woman grapples with a deathly skeletal figure while a small child clings to her.
A skeletal figure dances gracefully across a celestial field in Nancy Sutor's photomontage Skeleton (1982).
In this superb Basquiat, which has a conservative high estimate of $ 900,000, the skeletal figure with a halo at the left rises above a supplicant being baptized.
He pursued these bleak interests in The Street's second iteration, at the Reuben Gallery the following May, in which this skeletal figure hung from the ceiling, representing a stock character encountered on the streets of the Lower East Side.
The playful series Dance of Death (1974 — 75) consists of pastel sketches featuring a jolly skeletal figure of death, dancing with maidens or smoking with soldiers.

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Last June a 6» 3», 167 - pound figure clad from head to heel in the blue and yellow of his native Brazil became the most striking skeletal symbol in Paris this side of the Eiffel Tower.
A detour on the road to regenerative medicine for people with muscular disorders is figuring out how to coax muscle stem cells to fuse together and form functioning skeletal muscle tissues.
With ray tracing, the skeletal rig can be rendered as a simple small - polygon figure or in a more complex human form.
Two years after archaeologists unearthed the 400 - year - old skeletal remains of four leaders of America's first colony, Jamestown, Virginia, they have figured out their names.
Northern analysis revealed that in three of these lines the transgene was expressed in skeletal muscles but not in any of the non-skeletal muscle tissues examined (Figure 1); in the fourth line, Z111B, the expression of the transgene was below the level of detection in these blots.
In order to contextualise the australopithecine and early Homo stature estimates and range of variability obtained from the footprints within a broader picture (Figure 12), and to compare them with a larger sample, we extended our analysis to consistent data based on skeletal elements, namely femurs (see Materials and methods for details).
A 1929 guide on Neanderthal Man by the curators of the museum describes how Blaschke modelled the figures on casts of Neanderthal skeletal remains and with the advice of European anatomists.
«A paleontologist, who has never seen a living dinosaur, can figure out how the dinosaur looked and lived from its skeletal remains,» said Ilya Mandel from the University of Birmingham in the UK, the paper's senior author, in a statement.
Consistent with spectroscopy measurements, Amrose v3 can be efficiently excited with the commonly used yellow (561, 594 nm) or red laser (633 nm) excitation wavelengths (Figure 5) as demonstrated here by image recording of the embryonic retina or skeletal muscle in the trunk.
Lowering of plasma TG levels after injection of [3H] triolein - labeled Liposyn particles was associated with a greater uptake of [3H] triolein in the liver, but not in organs such as the heart or skeletal muscle (Figure 8F), as would be expected if LPL activity were enhanced.
Miguel knows that he is no longer in Kansas when he sees skeletal - like figures with colorful skulls existing in a strangely elaborate and visually diverse landscape.
Skeletal, eyes bulging and unstoppable, when the Mummy is not looking like Arnold Vosloo and more of a rotting creature from the depths of Egypt, he is a scary figure to lead the film with, especially as the first half of his plot sees him promise to kill four of the lead characters and brutally follow up on that promise.
Here that spirit is a skeletal female figure who only appears in darkness.
In the early 60s the human figure enters the work, but it is often interred in the blasted landscape or, later in the 70s it is flayed and skeletal.
The figures» caricature - like outlines and the works» pastel and candy colours belie the bleakness of their content: burial mounds, swamps full of wine bottles, stumps instead of trees, a lone cottage and isolated, skeletal humans, both Native Americans and white pioneers, seemingly wracked by melancholy, hunger and substance abuse.
The shells are giant in scale, yet skeletal, and burn with a fiery intensity next to the larger than life figures.
Allison Schulnik's EAGER is a jumble of grotesque and beautiful scenes that begins with a dance of skeletal female figures who communicate with their long, stringy hair, since their faces are absent.
In the back gallery, Ryan's signature parrot - like figures rest atop a skeletal outdoor umbrella in Parasol.
His latest paintings, perhaps closer to Jackson Pollock or Cy Twombly than Matta's animated stick figures and skeletal machines, step toward the path of patterned abstraction without venturing onto it.
In the early 60s the human figure enters the work, but is often interred in the blasted landscape or, later in the 70s it is flayed and skeletal.
Corals from Butaritari were more severely affected by bleaching in 2004 (Figure 2); on average corals from Butaritari had a 45 % reduction in skeletal extension rates in 2004 compared with a 22 % reduction at Abaiang and North Tarawa (p = 0.055, permutation test between sites, Figure 4).
Skeletal extension rates recovered within two years of the bleaching event at both island groups (Figure 2).
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